Down On The Upside - Packaging

Packaging

The album's cover art, photographed by Kevin Westenberg, features the members of the band in silhouette. At one point the cover art image for the "Blow Up the Outside World" single was considered for use as the cover art image for Down on the Upside. The album was also released in a limited edition with the Into the Upside interview disc.

The title Down on the Upside comes from a line in the song "Dusty". The lyric is "I think it's turning back on me/I'm down on the upside." Cornell said that the title represents the different feels on the album. In an interview Cornell explained how the name was chosen:

"I brought it up at some point because the song that the title came from was "Dusty," but my title for it was "Down on the Upside," but Ben wrote the music and he called it "Dusty." So since we don't really like having song titles being the title of the record, 'cause it brings this weird, undue focus to the song, I thought it would be cool to call it Down on the Upside. We started thinking about all these other titles, and worrying about them describing the whole record without excluding anything...So it was the last minute and we were at a photo shoot for Spin and someone called and said, 'We need your title now so we can start doing the record package,' so Matt brought up the title again, and everyone went, 'yeah, that's it.'"

According to an interview with the band, Cameron and Shepherd jokingly said that two other titles considered for the album were Mr. Bunchy Pants and Comin' At Ya!